BYOD: Exploring Accessibility Options in Captivate 2018

Conference Archive

DevLearn 2018 Conference & Expo - October 24, 2018

Michael Wilday

Adobe Captivate 2017 provides eLearning content creators many
interactive tools, but accessibility often takes a back seat to interactivity. In
December 2017, a development team was tasked with making a series of interactive
presentations accessible to screen readers when they were informed a student with
blindness had been enrolled for the upcoming term.

This session will explore how Adobe Captivate interacts with
screen readers and how it can provide accessible interactions for students with
disabilities. You’ll explore closed captioning, adding accessibility text, and creating
a variety of accessible interactions; and you’ll learn about some of the challenges
the team faced in converting existing content. You’ll explore the results of those
challenges in a screen reader and find out how, with accessibility, you can help
equip all learners with an engaging learning experience.

In this session, you will
learn:

Several tips for making your content accessible to
learners with vision and hearing impairment

How to use JAWS and NVDA screen readers to test your
content in Adobe Captivate

About some of the challenges of making Captivate
interactions accessible

About some free tools for testing the accessibility
of Captivate files